Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
Interpretation
Proper education of children is essential for the well-being of a nation.
This quote emphasizes the critical importance of education in nurturing the future of a nation. Dwight D. Eisenhower warns that inadequate education can lead to dire consequences not only for individuals but for society as a whole, highlighting the interconnectedness between a well-educated populace and the overall prosperity of the nation.
In practice
During a speech on education reform, a politician might use this quote to stress the importance of funding for schools.
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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